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Only the day before. Doty had announced his support for the withdrawal resolution. He had originally been the only member of the Biochemistry Department to withhold support; he changed only after Ptashne reworded the resolution and included a preamble saying that the vote was not precedent-setting...
...passage of the Administration's key anti-inflation program, and satisfaction on the part of Democrats, who were determined to use the bill as a lever to bring about tax reform. The struggle has also caused confusion for employers, who have been puzzled about how much tax to withhold from paychecks, and uncertainty throughout the already troubled economy (see BUSINESS...
...tough image is not without foundation. To fight crime in the District of Columbia, Mitchell has advocated preventive detention for some suspects, a formula of uncertain constitutionality that would allow judges to withhold bail from men with criminal records. In the battle against organized crime and subversion, he has contended that the Justice Department should have far greater control than it now has to conduct wiretaps and plant electronic bugs (see THE LAW). To combat the narcotics traffic, he urged adoption last week of a national "no-knock" law that would empower federal agents to break into a suspect...
...cities have been sued because of sex courses by citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses, and a similar bill has been proposed in Congress to withhold federal monies. Tennessee has adopted a new law making it a misdemeanor for a teacher to present sex courses without prior approval of both the state government and local boards of education...
Where the U.S. government does act is in school desegregation. They used to withhold aid from high schools that weren't integrated and now the Federal courts have ordered the Alabama schools to integrate or close down. But Negroes no longer get very excited about going to the white schools. 90 percent of them are still going to all back schools. What the courts will wind up doing is to close down a lot of the really good black schools that just can't get any white kids to come. And the black schools have tried everything to be more...